2000
DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1099-1646(200003/04)16:2<113::aid-rrr572>3.0.co;2-5
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Long-term data assessment of chironomid taxa structure and function in the River Thames

Abstract: Discharge of the River Thames is already regulated to prevent flooding and to satisfy demands for water. A flood alleviation channel is under construction, while a pumped‐storage reservoir has been proposed to further regulate discharge for water supply. The aim of this investigation was to assess the suitability of available quantitative macroinvertebrate data for detecting significant change in biological structure and functioning, and substratum composition, following the implementation of these schemes. Pu… Show more

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“…At present the objective of relating species to environmental factors in alpine inland waters is reached only in part, species groups or genera and not species were generally used in multivariate analysis carried out to emphasise the species response to environment (Ruse & Davison, 2000;Milner et al, 2001); the reason is that species identification is a very laborious task and rarely it is matched by the estimation of species abundances and measurement of environmental variables. CHIRDB allowed the calculation of correlations between environmental variables with species, but the number of samples available was low for many species resulting in high standard deviations (see Tables 2-4).…”
Section: Resultsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…At present the objective of relating species to environmental factors in alpine inland waters is reached only in part, species groups or genera and not species were generally used in multivariate analysis carried out to emphasise the species response to environment (Ruse & Davison, 2000;Milner et al, 2001); the reason is that species identification is a very laborious task and rarely it is matched by the estimation of species abundances and measurement of environmental variables. CHIRDB allowed the calculation of correlations between environmental variables with species, but the number of samples available was low for many species resulting in high standard deviations (see Tables 2-4).…”
Section: Resultsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Chironomids are a speciose group consisting of taxa that vary in their responses to pollution and other environmental characteristics, and they are an important biological indicator group for monitoring, assessing and classifying aquatic environments [45-47]. They are particularly useful as indicators of aquatic pollution in urban areas, because they can dominate benthic urban macroinvertebrate fauna in these areas, representing up > 50% of the aquatic insect species collected in benthic surveys [46,48-50].…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Rosenberg and Resh, 1993;Wilson and Ruse, 2005;Raunio et al, 2007b;Raunio et al, 2007a;Heino and Paasivirta, 2008). Further, studies relating environmental variables to the spatial and/or temporal patterns of chironomid distribution are reported from Australia (Hardwick et al, 1995;Dimitriadis and Cranston, 2007), Finland (Raunio et al, 2007b;Heino and Paasivirta, 2008), the United Kingdom (Ruse and Wilson, 1995;Ruse, 2000;Ruse and Davison, 2000), Spain (Calle-Martı´nez and Casas, 2006;Punti et al, 2009) and Japan (Inoue et al, 2005). The association between the environmental variables that determine chironomid community structure is complex, determined by physical, chemical and biological processes that vary both temporally and spatially in the lotic environment.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%